Re: Managing print queues

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On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 09:41 -0500, Gabriel M. Elder wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 09:14 -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote:
> > On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 09:23 +0100, Tim Waugh wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 07:43 +0100, James Wilkinson wrote:
> > > > For example, suppose you've sent something to print, realise the
> > > > printer's out of paper, and decide you'll do without the print -- how do
> > > > you cancel the job?
> > > > 
> > > > In a terminal, it's easy -- lpq shows you the outstanding jobs, and lprm
> > > > deletes them. Assuming it's *your* job, you don't even need to be root.
> > > > 
> > > > But there doesn't seem to be an obvious GUI to handle that, apart from
> > > > http://localhost:631 (the CUPS web interface).
> > > 
> > > You should see a little printer icon in your systray, and clicking on
> > > that will give you a print queue manager.
> > > 
> > > Tim.
> > > */
> > I don't know where my systray is and I have never seen a printer icon
> > anywhere on my screen. Where is this?
> > -- 
> > Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Specifically, the systray referred to here is the "notification area"
> panel applet, which is present by default on fedora's gnome desktop's
> top panel. If the notification area isn't on your panel, it can be added
> by right-clicking on the panel, select "Add to panel..." and then select
> it from the list. I'm not sure offhand which program is actually
> responsible for putting this icon in the notification area, but it is
> enabled by default.
> 
> The little printer icon shows up for me when i print from my fedora 6
> desktop. On my fedora 5 desktop, there may be a bug, since the little
> printer icon doesn't always show up. But i'm not going to sweat it,
> since i've basically completed my transition to fedora 6, and version 7
> is going to be released soon anyway.
> 
> - gabriel
> 
By George you are right. I have noticed the print icon before because it
is more or less invisible when no printing is going on.

Shades of Windows. What a shock.
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